Lewesiceras Temporal range:
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Lewesiceras mantelli, from Czech Republic, at the National Museum (Prague) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Ammonitida |
Family: | †Pachydiscidae |
Genus: | †Lewesiceras Spath, 1939 |
Lewesiceras is a genus of large ammonites belonging to the order Ammonitida and the family Pachydiscidae.
They lived in the late Cretaceous period, in the Cenomanian and Turonian ages, which occurred 99.6-89.3 million years ago. These shelled ammonoids were nektonic, fast-moving and carnivorous.
Cretaceous of Armenia, France, Germany, United States (Texas), Uzbekistan.